IBPS PO Prelims Exam Analysis, Review 2018: 13th October- 1st Slot |

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Dear Aspirants,

IBPS PO Prelims Exam Analysis 2018:

IBPS PO is the most sought-after recruitment in the banking industry. Several aspirants are burning candles at both ends to get a seat for themselves in this prestigious bank. 13th October is the first day of the first phase of this exam, i.e., prelims. Many students appeared for this exam and the competition will be very tough this time. Therefore, it is necessary that one gets aware about the type of questions being asked in the exam so that you get an idea about how to plan your strategy to attempt the questions in the exam and manage your time accordingly.

This year there is the sectional timing of 20 minutes in the Prelims Exam, its important for all banking aspirants to go through the review once. Exam analysis and review can help the aspirants who are yet to appear in upcoming shifts of IBPS PO Prelims to get an idea of the difficulty level and expected pattern of questions in Quantitative Aptitude, Reasoning Ability, and English Language sections. The examination held in this shift was of Moderate level. The order of occurrence of sections was English, Reasoning and Quantitative Aptitude

IBPS PO Exam Analysis 2018: Section-wise Analysis

Subject	Good Attempt	Time
English Language	16-19	20
Reasoning Ability	19-23	20
Quantitative Aptitude	17-21	20
Total	53-58	60

Quantitative Aptitude (Moderate)

The level of Quantitative Aptitude section was moderate. One can easily attempt questions if they have practiced well. DI questions based on Line Graph and Bar Graph were there is this slot.

Topic	No. of Questions	Level
Data Interpretation	11	Moderate
Wrong Number Series	6	Moderate
Quadratic Equation	6	Moderate
Arithmetic Word Problems (Profit and Loss, Problem on Ages, SI & CI etc)	12	Moderate
Total	35	Moderate

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English Language (Moderate)

English section was of moderate level. There were only 7 question in the set of Reading Comprehension out of which 1 question was of vocabulary. It is important that candidates choose wisely what to attempt and what to skip. Reading Comprehension was based on an article related to printing press and history of newspapers. There were 3 different types/pattern of Error Detection questions.

Topic	No. of Questions	Level
Reading Comprehension	7	Moderate
Error Detection	7	Easy-Moderate
Filler	5	Moderate
Cloze Test	6	Moderate
Sentence Improvement	5	Moderate
Total	30	Moderate

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Reasoning (Moderate)

The level of reasoning was Moderate. There were 3 sets of puzzles and Seating Arrangement, following are the types

Floor Based Puzzle
Square seating arrangement
Miscellaneous Puzzle

Topics	No. of Questions	Level
Puzzles and Seating Arrangement	15	Moderate
Coding Decoding	5	Easy-Moderate
Direction sense	3	Moderate
Inequality	5	Easy-Moderate
Alphabet	1	Easy-Moderate
Comparison Based Questions	2	Moderate
Miscellaneous	4	Moderate
Total	35	Moderate